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She had the outside oven you-see it would take that long, it would take- it would take slabs of wood that long. But ah, yes, I've heard her tell many a time, when she'd get up in the morning her yard would be full of wood that she didn't have to pay anything for it because they wanted a place to put it and they knew she needed it and they gave it to her.

Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Um- I want to ah- talk to you now about um- the way your mother washed the clothes. Do you recall what- Speaker: Oh yes. Interviewer: Tell me about that. Speaker: Oh yeah. Many a time I helped her. Interviewer: Yes? Speaker: Well, she had a washer, you-know. Like this. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: You-know. And- a- as she washed this thing, inside would go like this.

Speaker: He would order a plate of ham and eggs. And somebody told him, "Doc, you can't have that." And he told them to go and shut up. He was eating it. Eggs. Interviewer: What do you think of ah- Chester-Chiles and what he did for the town? Speaker: Chester was pretty good. We ate there many a time I know and ah Chester would ah- he didn't ah let anybody go hungry really. He would take shares or- the- or the good salesman I-don-t-know, for food and he gathered some Lake-Shore stock that way.

I can remember when Eaton's was in its heyday. And while we're talking about Eaton's, directly across the road there used to be big pile of rock, and on top of that rock there used to be an old shack. And in that shack lived a woman called Rhea-Burns. Who chased me many a time because I stopped and petted her dogs and- and, ah, wouldn't hesitate to take her cane and swing at you. And hit you because you- you were nice to her dogs.

Interviewer: And, um, what was I going to say? I don't remember. Oh yeah. I'm from Montreal, right, and so like, I-D is not necessarily a big problem. Speaker: I know, I know. I've been to Montreal many a time. Interviewer: Did they even bother carding you? Speaker: Ah, no. Interviewer: Yeah, it's-like, "Yeah, whatever." Speaker: Yeah, you-know what, yeah. Yeah I've been to Montreal a good number of times, we go partying there. Yeah, Montreal's a good place to party.

So we found the beaver dam and we chased after beavers. We once- like we trapped one once kind-of and we took pictures of it. It was the coolest thing I've ever seen. Interviewer: I overheard that you um fell out of the boat trying to get to a deaver- beaver dam. Speaker: Many a time have I fallen out of the boat. And it is quite possibly the grossest scariest thing ever. Interviewer: Why? Speaker: Ah like the- the mud kind-of-deal. Like leading up to the beaver dam is not mud it's like- it's like quicksand.

He was hired to come here, to teach here from Southern-Ontario, that was quite a change for him. I have a lot of his old ah pictures that he sent to me, gave me, he said, "No one wants them, Lucianno, you want to keep them?" The mementoes is ah- I an-- and he said to me many-a-time because I met with him and he always came to the homecomings that we had after the school closed down. And he ah, he said that, ah his best, "I could never have come to a better place."

Speaker: Yes, it was very quiet. (laughs) Yeah. Interviewer: Can you ah- can you remember a specific story where ah you were disciplined by your parents? Speaker: Disciplined? Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Oh yes. (laughs) Many a time. Yeah. Um- I'd get lickings. Interviewer: Okay. Really? Speaker: Yeah. And I'd have my behind spanked. I had my mouth slapped once because of something that I said that I shouldn't have said. And I can appreciate it. I can understand where they came from.

Speaker: It was near three miles, walking. Many a time our road wasn't ah open to- for a week even the mail driver with the horse-and-cutter were up on the embankment, that's where you were until they- took about a week to open the roads.

But, ah, it's interesting that what- when Matthew was saying about the one-room schoolhouses, I know, ah, many a time- even though we came from the farm, ah, which was about two-and-a-half, three miles, we'd walk, ah, to school in- in the winter and we'd be the first ones there.